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IRI 2012 Annual Meeting - Speaker Bios
Keynotes:
Mr. John W. McDonald, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Chevron Corporation
John W. McDonald is vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron Corporation, a position he assumed in January 2008. He is the corporate officer responsible for Chevron's technology strategies and three technology companies representing about 7,000 employees: Energy Technology Company, which conducts research and development and provides technology services to Chevron’s operating units; Information Technology Company, which manages Chevron’s digital assets worldwide; and Chevron Technology Ventures, which invests in innovative venture capital startups, technology transfer, and new business models in conventional energy, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
McDonald graduated with an honors bachelor of science degree in geophysics in 1975 and began his career with Texaco that same year as a geophysicist in the company's Calgary Canada office. He went on to hold positions of increasing responsibility at various locations around the world, including vice president for Texaco's Exploration and Production Offshore Gulf of Mexico Division in New Orleans; vice president, Exploration and Production, for Texaco International in London with responsibility for Europe; and following the merger of Chevron and Texaco in 2001, president and managing director of ChevronTexaco Upstream Europe, based in Aberdeen, Scotland. Before his current appointment, McDonald served as vice president of Strategic Planning for Chevron Corporation, responsible for advising senior corporate executives in setting strategic direction and for resource allocation, operating unit performance measurement and mergers and acquisitions.
Vijay Govindarajan, PhD, Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business, Dartmouth College
Vijay Govindarajan is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. He was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric. He worked with GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt to write “How GE is Disrupting Itself”, the Harvard Business Review article that pioneered the concept of reverse innovation. Harvard Business Review rated reverse innovation as one of the ten big ideas of the decade.
Govindarajan has been identified as a leading management thinker by influential publications including Business Week, Forbes, The London Times, and The Economist. Prior to joining the faculty at Tuck, VG was on the faculties of Harvard Business School, INSEAD and the Indian Institute of Management.
The recipient of numerous awards for excellence in research, Govindarajan was inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame, and ranked by Management International Review as one of the Top 20 North American Superstars for research in strategy and organization. One of his papers was recognized as one of the ten most-often cited articles in the entire 40-year history of Academy of Management Journal.
He has published nine books, including international best sellers "Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators" and "The Other Side of Innovation."
VG works with CEOs and top management teams in Global Fortune 500 firms to discuss, challenge, and escalate their thinking about strategy
VG received his doctorate and MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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2012 Achievement Award
John J. Curro, PhD, Victor Mills Fellow, Procter and Gamble Company
John Curro received his Bachelor Degree in Physics from Xavier University in 1976 and his Doctoral Degree in Materials Science from the University of Cincinnati in 1982.
He joined Procter and Gamble that same year as a Staff Scientist in the Engineering Development Division. In that upstream corporate role, John led the creation of two new proprietary material platforms in porous materials and elastic composites. Upon P&G’s creation of their technical career system in 1992, he was appointed a charter member Research Fellow. In December of 1998, John was named a Fellow of the Victor Mills Society – an appointment reserved for only the most successful technology innovators in the company.
Over the years, John led a series of breakthrough material developments from initial invention through to successful commercial application. He is the lead inventor of an internally developed technology family known as Solid State Formation Technology. These technologies have a long track record of successful global commercialization in both the film and nonwoven industries, and are fundamental toward achieving sustained competitive advantage in several key areas of P&G business. They are utilized today in products such as Pampers, Always, Swiffer, and for the Clorox/P&G joint venture Glad Force Flex.
In 2007, John was awarded the CTO Pathfinders Award in recognition of his 20+ year leadership of this uniquely ubiquitous technology platform. He was also recognized by his alma mater U.C. as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2002. Holding over 60 U.S. patents, John continues to lead developments across a range of future product design opportunities.
2012 IRI Medalist
F. Emil Jacobs, PhD, Vice President, Research and Development, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
Emil joined Exxon Research and Engineering Company (ER&E) in 1978 and held various technical positions in synthetic fuels and petroleum processing R&D. In 1986, Emil transferred to Exxon Chemical Company in Houston, Texas where he held a number of management positions in Basic Chemicals Technology, Basic Chemicals Planning, and Polyethylene Marketing. In 1995, Emil moved to England to become the global manager for Exxon's fuel additives business and returned to Houston as the global Vice President for the Elastomers business.
Emil was appointed global Vice President, Basic Chemicals and Intermediates Technology in 199 and initiated a number of programs that improved the company’s ability to process a range of chemical feedstocks to increase operating flexibility and improve business profitability.
In 2002, Emil was appointed to his current position, where his contributions have included developing the company’s model-guided research approach; implementing cross-functional teams to enhance technology discovery, development, and deployment; and increasing the company’s focus on emerging energy technology research.
Emil is a member of the Chemical Engineering Advisory Council at Princeton, the Advisory Board of the College of Chemistry at University of California (Berkeley), the Board of Trustees at Liberty Science Center, the Industrial Research Institute, and the Research and Development Council of New Jersey. He is also a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering and the American Chemical Society.
Emil has a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Rice University and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University.
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Additional Presenters
Atieh Abu-Raqabah, PhD, General Manager, SABIC Corporate Research and Innovation Center at KAUST
Prior to his assignment as General Manager, Dr. Atieh Abu Raqabah was a Manager of Polymer Chemistry and Catalysis at SABIC Technology Center in Riyadh, and SABIC global leader of community of excellence (CoE) for polymer chemistry and catalysis. He Joined SABIC in 1990 and participated in the foundation of the state of the art SABIC Research and Development Center in Riyadh.
During his stay at SABIC R&D, Dr. Abu Raqabah established and lead an innovative polymer catalysis research group where several inventions, catalyst and product improvements were realized. He participated in licensed technology evaluation and commercialization, interfaced with SABIC Strategic business units and manufacturing plants to create an innovative R&D-business link.
He is an inventor and co-inventor of over 50 patents and co-author of more than 30 publications in the field of catalysis and polymers. He was a winner of SABIC Award for Innovation and Arthur D. Little Award for Research excellence.
Prior to SABIC, Dr. Abu Raqabah worked as Assistant Professor at Chemistry Department of Leicester University, England. Dr. Abu Raqabah earned his PhD in Organometallic Chemistry in 1988 from Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
Dan Adams, Founder and President, Advanced Industrial Marketing
In addition to his work at Advanced Industrial Marketing (AIM) Dan Adams is also author of New Product Blueprinting: The Handbook for B2B Organic Growth. He is a chemical engineer and holder of many patents and innovation awards, including a listing in the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Adams was head of strategic planning for a billion-dollar company and has extensive experience in Fortune 500 marketing, business development and leadership positions. Dan is a guest lecturer at Wharton’s Executive MBA program and regularly trains in every region of the world... in both the front-end of innovation and B2B product launch.
In 35 years of working within and with major B2B corporations, he has explored every aspect of product development. Dan's front-end-of-innovation work with DuPont (as a lead client) led to a novel online training/implementation model, for which he and his co-author, Dan Edgar of DuPont, received the "best article of the year" award from the Product Development and Management Association in 2011.
Gunjan Bagla, Founder & Managing Director, Amritt, Inc.
Gunjan Bagla is a mechanical engineer with 25 years of global engineering, sourcing and marketing experience.
Bagla created the executive workshop “Business with India” for Caltech; he offers a customized in-company version for R&D executives in Europe and North America. The Global R&D Advisory Service of Amritt, Inc. serves CTOs and VPs of Product Development to help them create, build and manage global engineering and R&D resource teams. Client companies include many of the most respected names in American and European R&D and some who aspire to join those ranks by leveraging global scientific and technical resources.
Bagla speaks on the subject developing a global practice for innovation and has written about developing products for emerging markets. He has been a featured speaker on numerous sessions relating to product development and emerging countries. Top executives responsible for innovation have turned to Gunjan and his team at Amritt in industries ranging from aerospace, to chemicals, to consumer products, to industrial products, to medical devices, to food, to materials, to energy and more. Gunjan along with Amritt’s USA and India teams has travelled to Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, and China besides most top cities in India and the United States as part of their work.
Gunjan Bagla is the author of Amazon five-star rated “Doing Business in 21st Century India” and has been quoted in the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Business Week, besides appearing numerous times on National Public Radio, BBC Radio, BBC Television and Bloomberg TV.
He is a mechanical engineering graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and immediate past President of the IIT Alumni Group. Gunjan completed his MBA from Southern Illinois University, where he was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. He also serves on the board of the South Asia Studies Association.
Will Charles, General Manager, Technology Development, Auckland UniServices Limited
Will Charles has been General Manager, Technology Development since 2005. During this time UniServices has transacted over 110 licensing deals, started 13 companies that have raised over $30M in venture and seed funding, successfully exited a number of these and set up The Trusts Charitable Foundation (TTCF), a A$30M seed fund. Previously Will was Business Unit Head, Primary Care at Novartis Korea, where he gained extensive commercial experience in life science businesses in Europe, Asia and New Zealand. Will has also held executive positions at GlaxoSmithKline, Roche and Celltech.
Ashish Chatterjee, Managing Director, Connect+Develop, Global Business Development, P&G
Ashish Chatterjee leads global outreach and network development for P&G’s Open Innovation program, Connect+DevelopSM, and is responsible for helping deliver on P&G’s new C+D goals: deliver $3 billion in incremental sales annually through external innovation collaboration and be recognized as the Partner of Choice for external innovators. A 21-year company veteran, Ashish oversees a network of global Connect+Develop experts working in strategic regions around the world, and with them develops the pathway and the process to flow innovation into the company and share it outside through external partnerships, networks and collaboration.
Ashish earned both a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering, and joined P&G in 1990, working in Process & Materials Development at the Akashi Plant in Japan. In 1998 he moved to Cincinnati and held R&D roles with increasing responsibility in Consumer Research, Product Design, and Initiative leadership, and in 2002 was appointed Associate Director, Initiative Leader for Product Development, Feminine Care. Ashish joined P&G’s Connect+DevelopSM organization in 2008, taking on the role of Director, Asia Innovation Ecosystems and Bangalore Beauty R&D. This role required him to coordinate P&G’s identification of, and outreach to, solution providers across Asia; in addition, he served as the Bangalore Innovation Center Site Manager.
Ashish resides in Cincinnati with his wife and two children.
Martha J. Collins, PhD, Director, Global Technology Centers, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
Dr. Collins has 23 years experience as an innovator in chemical and gases industries. She has worked in both corporate and business-facing technology organizations helping business teams internally develop and acquire new products, platforms and technologies. Currently, Martha is the Director of the Global Technology Center for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc, an organization that develops and implements new and enhanced technologies for the full technology platform across all Air Products businesses. She was elected in May 2009 to the Board of Directors and is the current Vice Chairperson of the Board for the Industrial Research Institute – the leading U.S. association of companies and federal labs working together to enhance the effectiveness of technological innovation in industry. Previously, she has held positions of increasing responsibility in technology and innovation management. Prior to joining Air Products, Martha spent time early in her career developing and commercializing profitable new products and technologies for Eastman Chemical Company and for Union Carbide Corporation.
Martha holds a PhD from the University of California, Davis and 14 U.S. patents; she grew up in San Diego, CA; is married and the mother of three teenage sons.
Dan Edgar, Emerging Markets Innovation Leader, DuPont
Dan Edgar has been with DuPont for over 30 years and currently provides support to many “Innovation Teams” in various DuPont businesses. Most recently, Dan has taken on the role of implementing the use of New Product Blueprinting as a tool to support market validation for innovation projects. Dan has also worked with over 100 DuPont teams over the past 10 years as the key leader for the Knowledge Intensity University Program (KIU) which specializes in innovative business models for growth.
He holds a BA in Economics and an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.
David N. Edwards, PhD, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Avery Dennison
David N. Edwards was elected to his current position in November 2005 is based at the Avery Research Center in Pasadena, California.
Dr. Edwards joined Avery Dennison in 1999 as director of New Business Development. He was promoted to vice president of Corporate Research in February of 2000 and vice president of Corporate Research and Business Development in December of 2002. In 2003, he received the Company’s Leadership Excellence Award for Leadership Development and Organizational Effectiveness.
In addition to managing the Avery Research Center, Dr. Edwards is also responsible for Avery Dennison’s overall technology strategy and portfolio, which focuses on:
- identifying and prioritizing key technical needs across all businesses
- developing Avery Dennison’s external innovation network
- identifying and initiating research on new technology platforms
- developing mechanisms to share learning and improve collaboration across the technical organizations.
Dr. Edwards holds a PhD in chemical engineering from Cambridge University, England,
John Farnbach, PhD, Principal, Silver Streak Partners
Dr. Farnbach consults with company leaders to improve business results from new product investments, focusing on flexible product development and financial metrics. He taught finance in the Engineering Management Program at the University of Colorado (Boulder) and has over 35 years' experience working and consulting in product development and business management with companies including Hewlett-Packard, Analog Devices, Brooktree Corporation (semiconductors), and PrairieTek Corporation (disc drives). His positions at these companies have included General Manager, VP of R&D, VP of Marketing and Sales, and Product Line Manager.
Dr. Farnbach holds a PhD and BS from Princeton University and an MS from the University of New Mexico, all in electrical engineering.
Sharon Feng, PhD, Vice President of Business Development, Bayer MaterialScience LLC
Dr. Feng is responsible for innovation activities including product development and performance management in support of Bayer’s coatings and adhesives business in NAFTA region. She is also responsible for identifying growth opportunities for Bayer through scouting new technologies, developing new markets and establishing open innovation partnerships. In addition, Dr. Feng is a member of the Board of Directors of Koppers Holding Inc, a world leader in manufacturing of carbon materials. She chairs the Safety, Health and Environmental Committee on the board.
Sharon received her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from MIT in 1991. After her post-doctoral work in the Medical University of South Carolina, she joined Bayer as a R&D chemist in 1992. Throughout her tenure at Bayer, Sharon has held various positions with increased responsibilities in the areas of R&D, marketing and operations. In 2005, she was appointed Vice President of Business Development of Industrial Coatings for Asia Pacific region for Bayer MaterialScience, and was responsible in building the physical facility for the Polymer R&D Center in Shanghai and establishing the technical organization for supporting Bayer’s business in Asia Pacific region. Currently, she is a member of the global Innovation Community Council that is responsible for the developing and implementing innovation strategy worldwide for Bayer MaterialScience.
Dr. Feng is the author of 30 technical publications and the invited speaker for numerous professional and technical conferences. She lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and two daughters.
Hari Harikumar, PhD, Vice President, Innovation, Sustainability and Technology, Ingersoll Rand
Dr. Harikumar guides global leaders to accelerate product & service innovation, integrate sustainability initiatives, and develop new technologies across Ingersoll Rand. He also leads the company’s Center for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability.
Harikumar previously worked for Ingersoll Rand in St Paul, Minnesota as the global engineering and technology leader for Climate Solutions sector (~$8Billion sector involved in Commercial Heating, Ventilation, Air conditioning & Refrigeration). Hari had joined Ingersoll Rand in 2006 as the leader of the Ingersoll Rand Engineering & Technology Centers in India.
Hari started his corporate career in 1992 in the India operations of Engineering Mechanics Research Corporation (a Detroit based computational mechanics company) and went on to be Director-Engineering as its overall leader in India and Japan. In 2000 he joined the then newly started General Electric’s technology center in India to lead a research team in Material Mechanics and went on to be its Innovation & Technology Leader.
Hari holds a bachelor’s degree (1985) in mechanical engineering from the National Institute of Technology at Kozhikode, India. Hari has a master’s degree (1987) and a PhD (1992) in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India.
Michael Holman, PhD, Research Director, Lux Research
Michael Holman is a Research Director at Lux Research. He and his teams help clients – Global 500 corporations, leading institutional investors, thoughtful public policy makers – make better strategic decisions about new business opportunities in emerging technologies by providing technology scouting and market intelligence. Michael is frequently quoted in the press, and has been cited in publications like The Economist, The Guardian, and Congressional Quarterly on the commercialization of emerging technologies. Michael is also deeply involved in public policy issues around emerging technologies. He was a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group, addressed policymakers from the U.S. and EU at the Perspectives on the Future of Science and Technology program, and assisted the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) organize its Nanomanufacturing for Energy Efficiency Workshop.
Michael holds a PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University, where he was part of Columbia’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center. He also holds a BA in Chemistry and Philosophy from Rice University.
Robert Kirschbaum, Vice President Open Innovation, DSM N.V.
Mr. Robert Kirschbaum graduated from the Technical University of Delft (The Netherlands) as a Chemical Engineer in 1977. His career with DSM spans more than 30 years of fostering various innovative products up to full commercialization.
From 1997 to 2006 Rob was in charge of the DSM New Business Development Corporation. In this Corporate “Incubator” several early phase commercial activities and new ventures were combined to grow into sustainable businesses. In 2006 the NBD Corporation was integrated into the DSM Innovation Center.
Rob fulfilled the role of Vice President Innovation until 2009, focusing on the DSM cluster of Performance Materials. He was recently assigned VP Open Innovation of DSM. In May 2010 he received the prestigious Giulio Natta Award for his pioneering work and innovation in the advancement of performance materials.
Rob is married and has 3 children. He enjoys playing tennis as well as indoor soccer.
Paparao Kodali, Vice President & General Manager, Ingersoll Rand Engineering and Technology Centers
Ingersoll Rand is a $14 billion global diversified industrial company and a world leader in creating and sustaining safe, comfortable and efficient environments. In India, Ingersoll Rand has two Engineering and Technology Centers at Bangalore and Chennai that contribute to the company’s global and regional/emerging markets growth. Paparao’s key responsibilities include accelerating Innovation, developing India-based Centers of Excellence, supporting Global Product Development and designing and developing products for Emerging Markets.
With varied experiences in technology leadership, business development and management domains, Paparao joined Ingersoll Rand in October 2007. Prior to the current role, he held the position of Global Director, Technology Business Development at Ingersoll Rand’s U.S. headquarters in Davidson, North Carolina, and was responsible for developing strategic technology and business development roadmaps for the company. Paparao has extensive experience and deep understanding of technology and product development, advanced scientific software development, and large-scale software applications.
Before joining Ingersoll Rand, Paparao held a variety of technical and management positions at Nortel Networks, U.S., and Hughes/Raytheon Systems, U.S. An engineering graduate of Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS) Pilani, India, Paparao obtained advanced degrees in management (MBA) from India and computer science (MS) from the United States.
Carla Kuesten, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Consumer Product Research, Amway
Dr. Kuesten has 30+ years of experience in sensory and consumer research. She establishes and implements strategic direction for research and conducts basic and applied qualitative and quantitative research studies globally. She has held numerous positions over the years in the personal care and food industries as well as consulting businesses including S. C. Johnson Wax, Philip Morris, The Institute for Perception, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Arthur D. Little/TIAX, Sara Lee, Kellogg’s and Amway.
Dr. Kuesten stays actively involved as a member of numerous professional societies including: American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International, Institute for Food Technologists (IFT), Society for Sensory Professionals (SSP), Sensometrics, Product Development Management Association (PDMA), and Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB). Her research activities include development, utilization and evaluation of computerized sensory and consumer research test protocols, advisory/feedback systems, and modeling methods.
Dr. Kuesten has contributed or lead a number of workshops on Quality Management, Targeted Consumer Research, Descriptive Panel Methods and Analysis Techniques, and Foundations and Tools of Product and Concept Measurement and Optimization and has published in numerous research journals.
Dr. Kuesten holds a PhD from Cornell University in Food Science and Statistics.
Navin Kunde, PhD, Global Partnerships Leader, The Clorox Company
As Global Partnerships Leader, Navin is responsible for nurturing innovation-led partnerships that lead to growth. Prior to joining Clorox, he spent seven years at The Corporate Executive Board advising Fortune 500 innovation and operations executives, and five years in product development at The Cessna Aircraft Company. Navin has a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, an MBA from Cornell, and is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
While at the Corporate Executive Board, Navin organized, spoke at, and facilitated 1-2 day Executive Retreats for Chief Technology Officer and VP-level R&D leaders about 20 times a year in North America, Europe and Australasia. This included meetings conducted in Washington DC for top R&D leaders (from 30+ leading companies like ExxonMobil, PepsiCo, P&G, 3M, etc.) with Obama Administration CTO Aneesh Chopra in 2009 and 2010 to discuss the Administration’s approach to Fostering US Competitiveness and Innovation in the World.
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Peter Lee, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, Auckland UniServices Limited
UniServices Limited is a wholly owned company of The University of Auckland. UniServices manages all the University’s commercial research and consultancy partnerships, forms new business ventures based on University research and owns and develops the University’s intellectual property estate.
Peter Lee graduated from Auckland University with a PhD in Chemical and Materials Engineering in 1975. Since then he has had extensive industrial experience in North America. Most recently Peter has been Vice President, Global Research and Development for International Paper Company. This involved worldwide process and product development, including new ventures and spin-offs. He held a similar role with Mead Paper Company and before that worked for Weyerhaeuser Company and the Institute of Paper Science and Technology.
Prior to joining UniServices, Peter was CEO of AgriGenesis, a company applying modern biotechnology to plants. He is a member of Industrial Research Institute, and a Fellow of the Technical Association of Pulp and Paper.
Max H. Lewis, Vice President – Global Innovation, The Sherwin-Williams Company
Max was appointed Vice President – Global Innovation in 2008 and is responsible for coordinating the world-wide research & development, manufacturing technology, and technical service functions supporting the company’s nine (9) operating divisions. Max also provides strategic direction for the company’s Innovation Council and is responsible for the company’s new technology ventures. Previously he was Vice President – R&D for the Paint & Coatings Division. Max has 32 years of industrial experience having held a variety of positions in marketing, engineering, R&D, and manufacturing support.
Max earned his BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where he graduated Valedictorian of the College of Engineering and Technology. Max also holds an MBA degree from Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma. He began his career in 1979 in Ponca City, Oklahoma, as a Research Engineer with Conoco Inc. in their Chemicals Division. Conoco Inc. was subsequently acquired by DuPont, and in 1987, Max transferred into DuPont’s Titanium Technologies business. Max joined Sherwin-Williams as Director of Applied Research in 1995, leaving a marketing management position within DuPont.
Max is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and is a Registered Professional Engineer licensed in the State of Oklahoma. He served as President of the Board of Directors of PRA International located in London, UK until its merger with Pera International in 2009. He now serves on Pera International’s Board of Directors. He is currently a member of the Ohio Polymer Strategy Council and serves on the Board of Advisors for the Ohio BioProducts Innovation Council (OBIC). Max also serves on the Board of Advisors for AlSher Titania LLC, a privately held nanomaterials technology company.
Jeffrey D. Lindsay, PhD, Head of Intellectual Property, Asia Pulp & Paper
Jeff Lindsay is based in Shanghai, China, where he works with business units of APP to advance innovation and IP. Jeff is a former innovation and IP consultant, professor and a registered U.S. patent agent.
Jeff Lindsay, Cheryl Perkins and Mukund Karanjikar are authors of the book Conquering Innovation Fatigue: Overcoming the Barriers to Personal and Corporate Success (John Wiley & Sons, 2009) dealing with the easily overlooked personal side of innovation and the numerous barriers to innovation that companies and governments may unintentionally create.
Jeff has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. Jeff then joined the faculty of the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (Georgia Tech campus) where he became an Associate Professor. Later he joined the R&D community at Kimberly-Clark and after intense involvement with patents and patent strategy, was named Corporate Patent Strategist and Senior Research Fellow in 2001. Jeff has over 100 granted U.S. patents, mostly from K-C.
From 2007-2011, Jeff was Director of Solution Development at Innovationedge, a consulting firm that helps companies with technology scouting, new product development, and IP strategy. Jeff also served as Chair of the Forest Bioproducts Division of AIChE. Jeff currently is as a member of AIChE’s Chemical Engineering Technology Operating Council (CTOC).
Jeff is a fan of Chinese culture and language (Mandarin).
Russ Martinelli, Managing Director, TrendScape Innovation Group, Systems and Strategy Analyst, Intel Corporation
Russ is a co-founder and managing director of the TrendScape Innovation Group where he is engaged with companies in the areas of business strategy development, business model evaluation, ecosystem development, and technology roadmapping. He has over twenty years of experience in strategy development, portfolio management, new product development program management, and engineering in the high-tech, aerospace, defense, medical, and non-profit industries.
At Intel Corporation, Russ has led multiple globally-dispersed new product development teams. He currently focuses on developing and aligning business and technology strategy, identifying cross-company new product development challenges, and conducting industry best-practice research to resolve the identified challenges. Prior to joining Intel, Russ served as an engineering manager, program director, and design engineer for Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Russ is the co-author of two books, “Program Management for Improved Business Results” published in 2007 and “Leading Global Project Teams” published in 2010. Additionally he has authored or co-authored over 50 articles and publications.
Langdon Morris was named Director at PwC in 2012 and leads an innovation consulting practice within its Strategy Group. His work focuses on developing and applying advanced methods in innovation and strategy to solve complex problems with very high levels of creativity.
As co-founder and partner of InnovationLabs LLC, Morris is recognized as one the world’s leading thinkers and consultants on innovation, and his original and ground-breaking work has been adopted by corporations and universities on every continent to help them improve their innovation processes and the results they achieve.
His breakthrough white paper, Business Model Warfare is a landmark in the field, and is used as a standard reference at universities and corporations worldwide. His book Fourth Generation R&D, coauthored with William L. Miller, is considered a classic in the field of R&D management, and his more recent Permanent Innovation is recognized as one of the leading innovation books of the last 5 years.
He is formerly Senior Practice Scholar at the Ackoff Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He has also taught MBA courses in innovation and strategy at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires, and has lectured at universities on 4 continents, including Rochester Institute of Technology, Chaoyang University of Technology (Taiwan), Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et Métiers (Paris), University of Colorado, University of North Carolina, and Shanghai Jao Tong University (China).
Mathieu leads and manages the daily activity and operations at CREAX. CREAX is the reference in systematic innovation and offers a unique innovation methodology, innovation services and innovation software. The company is based in Belgium, Europe and operates worldwide.
Mathieu has a vast experience in business development and management. Besides the daily management, Mathieu is responsible for the business development and the management of the international resellers’ network.
Mathieu maintains strong business relationships with companies like Anheuser-Busch InBev, BMW, Coca-Cola, Goodyear, Mars, P&G, Pfizer, Philips, Sappi, Total, Unilever and many others.
Mathieu started his career at Fortis Bank before joining an incubation centre for start-up companies. At the time, he was responsible for coaching the start-ups in management and marketing. Before joining CREAX in 2003, Mathieu joined Ernst & Young as a management consultant, where he gained a lot of valuable experience and further expanded his business network. Mathieu received his Masters in Applied Economic Science from the University of Brussels.
Mathieu is married to Laurence and the proud father of 4 kids.
Irene J. Petrick, PhD, Managing Director, Trendscape Innovation Group, Penn State University Professor
Dr. Irene J. Petrick is an internationally recognized expert in strategic roadmapping. She is actively engaged with companies in their innovation and technology strategy activities, including work with twelve Fortune 100 companies, the U.S. military, and a wide variety of small to medium sized enterprises. Petrick is a managing director at Trendscape Innovation Group and has also been a professor at The Pennsylvania State University since 2000. In addition to her professorial activities, she has over 25 years of experience in technology planning, management and product development in both the academic and industrial settings. She is author or co-author on more than 120 publications and presentations.
While remaining a full-time faculty member, Petrick has received the Boeing Welliver Faculty Fellowship (Summer, 2005), has been a Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Faculty Intern on global assignment in India (Summer 2008), was a Faculty Administrative Fellow with Penn State’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development (2009) and in Summer 2010, Petrick worked with Intel where she won an Intel Divisional Recognition Award for her contributions to their strategic roadmapping activities. Petrick returned to Intel again in Summer 2011 and continues to be actively engaged in their strategic roadmapping and innovation work.
Since she joined academia in 2000, Dr. Petrick has been supported by a variety of sponsors in projects valued at over $5 million, including IBM, Lockheed-Martin, Metal Powders Industry Federation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Marine Corps, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, the PA Department of Environmental Protection and the PA Department of Commerce, as well as grants from the Australian Government, the Canadian Product Development Association and the Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) to support on -site strategic roadmapping seminars.
Raymond Price, PhD, William H. Severns Chair of Human Behavior in the College of Engineering and Co-Director of the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Raymond L. Price holds the William H. Severns Chair of Human Behavior in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is the Co-Director of the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education. At Illinois, he was the founding Director of the Illinois Leadership Center and the Technology Entrepreneur Center. Prior to joining the University, he held management positions at Allergan, Boeing, and Hewlett-Packard. He earned a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University. Prof. Price’s research is on innovation, creativity, and new product development. He collaborated with Charles H. House as the authors of The HP Phenomenon: Innovation and Business Transformation published in 2009. With Abbie Griffin and Bruce Vojak, he is co-author of Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms (Stanford Press; available in April 2012). Professor Price is dedicated to providing opportunities for students to develop the skills and capabilities needed for success in the 21st century.
MB Sarkar, PhD, Professor of Strategy & Stauffer Research Fellow in the Fox School of Business, Temple University
MB Sarkar’s research interests lie at the intersection of innovation, technology entrepreneurship, and emerging markets. He has published several articles in top-tier scientific journals and has won several awards for his research, including the prestigious 2005 Best Paper at the Academy of Management Journal.
Currently, MB is studying how serving under-served segments in emerging markets is leading to the next generation of competitive advantage, and helping multinationals reinvent. As a Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Leadership and Innovation at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, MB is involved with setting up the India Innovation Forum, a network of senior managers and leading global researchers, with the objective of better understanding the unique innovation strategies unfolding in emerging markets. Working closely with industry in India, MB brings this rich experience to his class-room, where he has won several teaching awards.
In addition to the Indian School of Business, MB is a visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India; Grenoble ecole de Management, Grenoble, France; and EDHEC, Nice, France. He holds a Doctoral degree from Michigan State University, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a BA in Economics from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi.
MB is the past-Chair of the Entrepreneurship & Strategy interest group of the Strategic Management Society, and the co-chair of the CK Prahalad Memorial SMS Conference held in 2011. MB is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneur, a global entrepreneurship organization.
Scott W. Smith, PhD, Director of Physical Chemistry, Allergan, Inc.
The Physical Chemistry at Allergan, Inc. is responsible for conducting pre-formulation activities and evaluating new drug candidates for development. Dr. Smith’s research interests include mechanisms of drug reactivity in solid pharmaceutical systems, role of drug and excipient physicochemical properties on solid-state reactivity, and strategies to improve drug-product stability. Dr. Smith received his BS in Chemical Engineering in 1986 and a PhD in Pharmaceutics in 1992 from the University of Utah.
Prior to joining Allergan, Dr. Smith lead the Research Formulation Group at Pfizer Global Research and Development located in La Jolla, CA, developed topical and transdermal drug-delivery systems at TheraTech, Inc, and developed liquid dosage formulations at Glaxo Research Institute.
Richard Sonnenblick, PhD, Founder and CEO, Enrich Consulting
Richard Sonnenblick is the founder and CEO of Enrich Consulting, a provider of enterprise portfolio management software for R&D opportunity and O&M activity prioritization. Each year, tens of billions of dollars of R&D funds are evaluated, shaped, and allocated using the Enrich Portfolio System, their flagship offering. Enrich has implemented portfolio management solutions to Fortune 500 firms for over a decade, and has learned much about the keys to the successful deployment of a forecasting and portfolio management process. Personally, Richard has worked to improve the effectiveness of multi-billion dollar R&D portfolios for some of the largest pharmaceutical, high technology, and electricity generation firms in the world. Richard has a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and a BA in Physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Paul Stead, Co-CEO/Founder, NewEdge
Paul Stead is the Co-CEO/Founder of NewEdge, a London, Richland, Seattle, and Chicago based unique consultancy that delivers growth through end-to-end innovation.
Stead trained as a furniture designer but is equally at home growing businesses and understanding business culture. He set up his own business at age 30, grew it to 85 people and sold it 12 years later. In 2000, he was appointed CEO of Fitch Worldwide, where he created the global business unit and structured joint ventures with the likes of Coca-Cola, GE and Allied Domecq.
Stead specializes in understanding how businesses and consultancies work best together, how to build a culture of creativity and how to engage large organizations. NewEdge partners with many of the world’s leading and most innovative companies including Procter & Gamble, Kellogg’s, Kraft, Dell, John Deere, Microsoft, among others.
Andrew Swift, Executive Vice President of Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, Intertek
Andrew runs a network of over 30 advanced analytical laboratories and regulatory advisory businesses with a team of over 2000 scientists and engineers providing expert support services for industrial customers worldwide from Shanghai to San Diego. In a career spanning over 10 years at Intertek, Andrew and his team have successfully engaged with several of the world’s largest Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Materials companies for the transfer of certain of their advanced laboratories and related activities to Intertek under highly innovative outsourcing contracts including Unilever, Kodak, Rolls Royce, Zeneca, ICI/ Akzo Nobel, DSM and most recently in the USA with Air Products.
Prior to joining Intertek Andrew launched and ran a successful spin off consulting and analytical business from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST, UK) working with industry in the sophisticated investigative research tools of the time for surface analysis where he also enjoyed a period of scientific research and associated publication. Both of Andrew’s degrees are from the University of Manchester. He is a Chartered Chemist of the Royal Society of Chemistry and sits on the Advisory Board of METRC which fosters closer cooperation between high tech industries with the UK’s Northern 8 leading Universities.
Fadi Trabzuni, PhD, Director of Business Development, Cristal Global
Dr Fadi leads the execution of key business and strategic projects in coordination with the global management team.
From 2005-2009, as Vice President, Operations and Technology (Yanbu), he managed all plant divisions and support services achieving best production and safety records resulting in the chairman award on safety most improved site in 2008. In 2007, Yanbu plant was rated as the most effective and lowest cost operations world wide for the production of Titanium Dioxide.
From 2002-2005, as Vice President, Technology Research and Development, Yanbu Plant, he was a member of the Executive Steering Body (EvSB) chaired by the CEO responsible for establishing the R&D center for Cristal Arabia. He participated in the development of Cristal Arabia technology strategy through the execution of key process and product development projects in line with the corporate efforts to enhance competitiveness and revenue.
Prior to joining Cristal Global, Dr. Fadi was with SABIC R&D (1994 – 2001) managing process development activities in SABIC and its affiliates delivering major breakthrough innovations in various product and process technologies.
From 1993-1994 he was a Project Engineer with Tasnee - one of the largest Saudi industrial companies.
Dr. Fadi is also an inventor holding number of granted patents in the field of chemical and petrochemical industries. He holds a Bachelor and Master degrees in Science of Chemical Engineering from King Saud University and a PhD in Design and Technology from Bradford University in the United Kingdom. Dr. Fadi has received Cristal Global recognition and his name is on Cristal Global wall of fame and a gold medal in 2011 in the International Exhibition for Inventions, Geneva.
Mr. Venkatesh Valluri is the President of Ingersoll Rand India and represents theIndia Management board as its Chairman. He has been associated with the Indian industry for over 25 years. Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) is a $14.0 billion globally diversified industrial technology company with a large presence in India that includes three Manufacturing sites and two Innovation and Engineering centers. In the recent past, Ingersoll Rand has begun to actively innovate solutions for emerging economies like India that could also addressglobal market needs. Ingersoll Rand in India has been focusing on markets such as Food Security, Energy Efficiency and Sustainability, ClimateSolutions, Comfort in Transportation and Industrial Efficiency.
Before joining Ingersoll Rand, Mr. Valluri was President & Country Manager, Agilent Technologies where he successfully established a strong footprint for Agilent’s India region business and R&D operations. Prior to Agilent he held various leadership roles at GE (General Electric) in India and abroad.
Mr. Valluri serves on the board of United Way India. He is a member of the Ministry-Industry Consultative Committee (MICC) under the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MOFPI), Government of India. He also serves as the Executive-Committee member of TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) and is a member of the National Executive board of AMCHAM (The American Chamber of Commerce) in India.
Mr. Valluri holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Technology in Electronics and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
Bruce A. Vojak, PhD, Associate Dean for Administration, College of Engineering, Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bruce A. Vojak is Associate Dean for Administration in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering. Earlier in his career, he contributed variously – in positions of increasing responsibility in research and development, technology management, strategic planning and new business development – at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory, Amoco Corporation and Motorola; immediately prior to joining the university he was Director of Advanced Technology for Motorola’s non-semiconductor components business. He holds both a PhDdegree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. In addition to his current administrative responsibilities, he teaches and conducts research on innovation and serves on the Board of Directors of Midtronics, Inc. With Abbie Griffin and Ray Price, he is co-author of Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms (Stanford Press; available in April 2012). His motivation to study exemplary innovators has been fueled by a desire to gain a clearer, broader, deeper and more integrated understanding of how they know what to do.
Mr. Winfield has 27 years of technology commercialization experience and previously worked in the medical device industry for 8 years. He provides strategic leadership and business development for the RTI Center for Technology Applications (CTA), building on core competencies of competitive technology assessment, market research, and commercialization. He has led this center into growth businesses, including open innovation services and innovation-led economic development consulting to government, university, and corporate clients.
Mr. Winfield received a sabbatical research award from RTI to spend time at the newly created King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia where he studied KAUST as a new university economic development model. He is a co-author of a paper on this subject presented at the Gulf Research Meeting in Cambridge in July 2011. Mr. Winfield manages client relationships and project activities with the KAUST Technology Transfer and Innovation office.
Mr. Winfield has organized numerous national workshops addressing research needs and involving university researchers, federal lab engineers, and technical and business professionals from industry. Mr. Winfield chaired the RTI Patent Advisory Committee for 7 years. Prior to joining RTI, he held several product development positions in the medical device industry. Mr. Winfield holds a BS in Engineering Analysis from Clemson University and a MS in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University.
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